On 4/1/12 2:19 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
On 1 April 2012 17:02, Sergei Steshenko<address@hidden> wrote:
I'm wondering hoe many years it will take to convince that Octave
and packages should be released in conjunction with each other.
We're not doing this to spite you. OF Packages are released separately
because it's too much work to do it together and OF package developers
sometimes see Octave as a foreign black box instead of something they
should work with.
- Jordi G. H.
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It's definitely hard to coordinate releases when you're a group of
volunteers working in geographically disparate locations.
Downstream packagers of Octave and Octave Forge can and do make up
bundles for their own distributions. For example, I've made up bundles
for the Fink project on Mac OS X for Octave 3.0.5, 3.2.4, 3.4.3, 3.6.0
and 3.6.1. When an Octave Forge package is updated, but not compatible
with older Octaves, I keep the old version available.
Since Fink is a source-based distribution, fundamentally, this relies on
the Octave Forge developers being so kind as to retain the older
versions of their package sources. :-) I definitely appreciate this.